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Mixed rhyme

Rhyme
Pronunciation

Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

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The pronunciation guide uses the ARPABET phonetic system—the same system used in speech recognition and text-to-speech applications.

Vowel Examples:
AE1 = cat, bat
EH1 = bed, head
IY1 = see, me
OW1 = go, boat
UW1 = boot, do
Stress Numbers:
0 = no stress (unstressed)
1 = primary stress (loud)
2 = secondary stress (medium)
Example:
AH0 TH IY1 N AH0
= a-THEE-na (Athena)

The stressed syllable (marked with 1) is pronounced louder and clearer than others.

Quick Definition

The use of multiple types of rhyme (e.g., perfect, slant, eye) within a single poem or stanza

Detailed Definition
Mixed rhyme combines different types of rhyme—such as perfect, slant, eye, and assonantal—within a single poem or stanza to create varied sonic textures and avoid monotony; this flexibility, common in modern poetry from Emily Dickinson to Seamus Heaney, allows for subtle musicality while accommodating complex thought and irregular speech rhythms.
Example
Example in poetry:
Emily Dickinson mixes slant and perfect rhyme: “room” / “storm”; W.H. Auden’s “In Memory of W.B. Yeats” uses near and full rhymes interchangeably; Sylvia Plath’s “Daddy” combines “Jew” / “through” (slant) with “blue” / “you” (perfect); modern poets often blend eye rhyme (“love” / “move”) with assonance.
Additional Notes
Mixed rhyme combines different types of rhyme (e.g., perfect, slant, eye) within a single scheme to balance musicality with flexibility—common in modern sonnets.
Also Known As
Slant-rhyme blend hybrid rhyme imperfect rhyme mix consonant-vowel rhyme ambivalent rhyme Scrambled rhyme Bivalent rhyme
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